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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Let Go of Limiting Beliefs

“Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

- Frank Outlaw, Founder of Bi-Lo

Everyday you’re faced with choices and challenges, and how you choose to respond
to them will shape and mold your life. If you’re by nature a positive person who
always sees the glass as half-full then rock on! But if you tend to look for the
negative in new situations or other people, then read on and set yourself free!
Limiting beliefs could be holding you back from living your best life.

Change the Way You See the World
Most unhappiness comes from the repetition of old stories we play out in our
heads: “I’m the unathletic one, the chubby one, the dumb one or the one who
can’t speak in front of the class.” Happiness involves letting go of that
baggage and moving forward with a new story. Explore where your ideas came from
and ask yourself if they’re really true. Just because your fifth grade gym
teacher told you that you weren’t athletic doesn’t mean you shouldn’t follow
your dream of training for a marathon or trying a spin class- or even play
backyard football with your kids.

If you continually think negative thoughts because of your ingrained beliefs,
your mind will see them as the truth. Whether these thoughts are about your
appearance, your intelligence or your athletic abilities, you’ve got to leave
them in the past in order to thrive in the present and reach your goals in the
future.

Most often, our sense of present inadequacy comes from these false beliefs
created in the past; so later on in life, when we go to answer the question of,
“Who am I?" we answer from this place of not being good enough. Here’s the
thing: you have the control to change your situation, and when you realize that
one bad experience from your past doesn’t have to be the frame of reference for
your future, a whole new world will open up.

Try This …
Write down your top five goals for the next five years. They could be
anything from getting that promotion you’ve been dreaming of or losing those
last 10 pounds to reach your ideal weight. Make two columns next to your goals
and in the first write down the limiting belief you have about why you think
you’ll never reach them; in the next column write down the strengths and skills
you know you have that will help you succeed. Instead of focusing on the
negatives, focus on all the reasons you can and will succeed; and then find a
productivity tool, like Goals on Track, to track and celebrate each little
milestone success.

When you learn to let go of your past and live in the present, there is no
goal you can’t reach, problem you can’t solve or race you can’t win; so decide
to go for it and believe you can do it!

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Quotes

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot - See more at: http://www.thenatureinus.com/#sthash.Rhtw3CRa.dpuf

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliott

"I've spent too long waiting for what's been taken from me, rather than enjoying what's been given to me." -- Unknown

“In God’s wilderness lies the hope of the world – the great fresh, unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and the wounds heal ere we are aware.” -- John Muir

"Faith is the bird that senses the light and sings while dawn is still dark." -- Rabindranath Tagore

"To know something about trees--about even one tree--is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it." -- Gerald Jonas"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out that there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is." -- Albert CamusLike winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech. -- Aldo Leopold (1886-1948)

"It is clear that there is one main message creation has to communicate to human beings, namely, the glory of God. Not primarily the glory of creation, but the glory of God. The glory of creation and the glory of God are as different as the love poem and the love, the painting and the landscape, the ring and the marriage. It would be a great folly and a great tragedy if a man loved his wedding band more than he loved his bride." -- John Piper

"We will do better in all aspects of life if we learn to "let go" of all we hold so tightly to and realize that control is a myth and striving for it is insanity." -- Donna L. Watkins